Cops: Man pretends to be reporter to get Oxycodone pills at Little Egg Harbor drug store

12:44 PM,
Mar. 30, 2014

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Brett Bodner
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Brandon Rivera, 28, of Galloway was charged with robbery after he falsely told a pharmacist he was a news reporter in an attempt to acquire Oxycodone pills, police said.

Police responded to the Walgreens on Mathistown Road at 11:10 a.m. Friday after receiving a report that a man had handed the pharmacist a note demanding Oxycodone pills, said Cpl. Chris Arciniegas, spokesman for the police department.

After he realized he wasn't going to get any pills, the man then tried to identify himself as a news reporter who was working on a ...